Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?
Interpretation
The quote questions why individuals allow others, especially strangers, to impact their self-worth.
Helena Bonham Carter's quote highlights the importance of self-esteem and the tendency of some individuals to rely on external validation from others to determine their value. It serves as a reminder that one’s self-worth should originate from within rather than being contingent upon the opinions or judgments of strangers, who may not truly understand them.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-confidence.
Sometimes I get it right and I sometimes I get it wrong. But fashion is all about having fun. I think fashion has been hijacked by the fashion industry creating rules on what one should wear and I feel like breaking the mold and seeing that the world won’t crumble.
I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.
Sometimes I go, “What am I doing with my life?” But then I get letters from young women, or people come up to me, and they say, “You’ve made such a difference to my confidence.” And that is a good thing. I should read more fan mail though. I’m crap at responding.
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Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.
Wear what you feel comfortable with. People say nasty things about what I wear in the street. I'm always in worst dressed lists, but you just have to dress for yourself and nobody else.
I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.
The largest question facing the human race is not when will you learn, but when will you act on what you've already learned.
I've learned that every human being, with or without disabilities, needs to strive to do their best, and by striving for happiness you will arrive at happiness. For us, you see, having autism is normal-so we can't know for sure what your 'normal' is even like. But so long as we can learn to love ourselves, I'm not sure how much it matters whether we're normal or autistic.
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The analysts try in vain to conceal the fact that they do not deduce: they combine, they compose ... when they do arrive at the truth they stumble over it after groping their way along.
Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
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